Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping : : Institutional Encounters with Otherness /

Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping : : Institutional Encounters with Otherness / / Louise Tranekjær.

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, within the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. In this volume, which is one of the first books on gatekeeping, Tranekjær seeks to address p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Tranekjær, Louise,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Language, Mobility and Institutions
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Internship Interview - A Hybrid Communicative Event
  • 2. Gatekeeping - An Interactional and Ideological Process
  • 3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction
  • 4. When Background is Foregrounded - Nationality and 'Ways of Life'
  • 5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language
  • 6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs - The Issue of Religion
  • 7. Gatekeeping - The Power of Categories
  • 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers
  • Appendix 1: Legal Extracts
  • Appendix 2: Transcription Notations
  • Appendix 3: Overview of Data
  • Appendix 4: Distribution of Cases Across Interviews
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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